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Successfully submitted for the award of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) to the Technological University Dublin, 2008.

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The development of ontologies has become an area of considerable research interest over the past number of years. Domain ontologies are often developed to represent a shared understanding that in turn indicates cooperative effort by a user community. However, the structure and form that an ontology takes is predicated both on the approach of the developer and the cooperation of the user community. A shift has taken place in recent years from the use of highly specialised and expressive ontologies to simpler knowledge models, progressively developed by community contribution. It is within this context that this thesis investigates the use of ontologies as a means to representing collective knowledge. It investigates the impact of the community on the approach to and outcome of knowledge representation and compares the use of simple terminological ontologies with highly structured expressive ontologies in community-based narrative environments.

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McAuley, J. (2008). A study on the use of Ontologies to Represent Collective Knowledge. Masters dissertation. Technological University Dublin. doi:10.21427/D76P67